NATO defense spending by country
This chart ranks NATO members by estimated core defense spending as a share of GDP. It uses NATO’s official Defence Investment tables and marks the former 2% guideline and new 3.5% core commitment; the broader 5% Hague pledge includes additional security-related spending not measured here.
What does it show?
Estimated NATO defense burdens vary widely, and several members remain below the former 2% guideline.
Methodology
Latest member-country estimates from NATO's 2026 Defence Investment workbook, Table 3, using NATO's common definition of core defense expenditure and sorted from highest to lowest share of GDP. Figures for 2026 are estimates. Iceland is omitted because NATO reports no value for it in this table; Iceland has no standing armed forces. The former 2% guideline and the new 3.5% core-defense commitment are reference lines. The 3.5% commitment is one part of NATO's 2035 target: Allies also agreed to account for up to 1.5% of GDP in broader defense- and security-related spending; that broader category is not measured in these bars.